Less Than Zero

By Bret Easton Ellis

By Bret Easton Ellis

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    About Less Than Zero

    Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980’s, Less than Zero has become a timeless classic. This coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age.  They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope.

    Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay’s holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.

    About Less Than Zero

    Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980’s, Less than Zero has become a timeless classic. This coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age.  They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope.

    Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay’s holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.

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    Praise

    “One of the most disturbing novels I’ve read in a long time. It possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

    “Bret Easton Ellis . . . is an extremely traditional and very serious American novelist. He is the model of literary filial piety, counting among his parents Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion.” —The Washington Post

    “Never has Hollywood’s version of success looked so frightening in a piece of contemporary literature.” —Newsday

    “Remarkable. A killer—sexy, sassy, and sad. . . . It’s a teenage slice-of-death novel, no holds barred.  The feel of it hits where it hurts.” —The Village Voice

    About Bret Easton Ellis

    BRET EASTON ELLIS is the author of six novels and a collection of stories, which have been translated into thirty-two languages. He lives in Los Angeles and is the host of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast available on Patreon.

    About Bret Easton Ellis

    BRET EASTON ELLIS is the author of six novels and a collection of stories, which have been translated into thirty-two languages. He lives in Los Angeles and is the host of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast available on Patreon.

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 30, 1998 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679781493

    Ebook
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 09, 2010 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780307756466

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